Saturday, February 1, 2014

The Milk of Human Failure

Two Faces has mighty Demogorgon and Seven Sins has Man.

Thus fourteen are His creatures, the Beasts of the Thick Milk.

They maintain their body at a metabolically favorable temperature largely by the use of the heat of incinerated souls from the lower planes rather than by internal bodily functions or ambient environmental heat.

The Elves of the North call them Melesgenesz--or "Creatures of the Sunless Wood". Halflings call them "Unhomely".

and I will make of the Slothful slaughtering Treants, who will wait for their prey.

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The vital fluids of these creatures inspire the sins and emotions associated with them. Hags are known to cultivate these liquids in tremendous witching vats.

The milk of the children of Hethridiah can be insinuated, as poison on a blade. So the respective sins of plunder, cannibalism, violation, slaughter, usurpation, domination and occupation, respectively, are spread whenever war is declared upon them.

The milk of the children of Aameul disguises itself as whatever liquid it is surrounded with. It is said these creatures poison the wells and corrupt the croplands where they prosper, and it is they who inspire gouging on the trade routes, overindulgence in the streets, adultery in lonely places, murder on the frontiers, unrest in the low districts, arrogance in palaces, and indolence throughout the quiet countryside.

Villainous people will, of course, attract creatures whose sins align with their own as followers--kenku will seek thieves, hyenas will seek bandits, centigors will serve antipaladins, thornchildren will serve wicked rulers, etc.